TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is in 55th place of 178 countries on the Failed States Index for 2013. This is a slight improvement position compared to previous years.
On top of the list are Somalia, Congo, Sudan and South Sudan. The least failed countries are Finland,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former defense minister Irakli Okruashvili was Saturday briefly detained by French police after a scuffle with another Georgian politician, former MP Merab Samadashvili.
The scuffle took place at Nice airport. Okruashvili was later released by airport police.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three prisoners are on a hunger strike at Ksani prison.
The Prison Ministry said Monday that August 1 one of its prisoners, a man called Kakha, had sewed his eyelids shut as a sign of protest, as he perceives himself as innocent and demands to
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Russian soldiers have detained one more Georgian citizen in a village close to the breakaway region South Ossetia.
Locals say Mikheil Khurievi, 63, was in the village Tsitelubani on Georgian-controlled territory when Russian soldiers approached him.
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Emergency workers in Georgia have saved four Polish climbers who have been trapped for three days atop one of the highest mountains in the Caucasus.
The four became trapped on top of the mountain Shkara after one of them fell down when
TBILISI, DFWatch–Iran’s consul in Georgia Ahmad-Reza Arzjani says the suspect in murder of a 16-year-old girl in Batumi Juy 22 has been in Turkey for the last two years.
Mariam Kochalidze, 16, was murdered near the beach in Batumi, a Black Sea holiday resort and one
TBILISI, DFWatch–A group of Polish climbers are requesting help after four of them got stuck in the Caucasus mountains.
One of the trapped climbers fell after a rope broke. He did not break any bones, but is having problems moving.
Giorgi Dzagnide, head of the Interior
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police detained Omar, 71, on suspicion of being behind a false bomb threat at the parliament building in Kutaisi.
Thursday parliament building was evacuated to allow law enforcers to conduct a bomb search. It later turned out that the report
TBILISI, DFWatch–South Ossetia has released Guram Gigineishvili, a Georgian who was detained five days ago in a village bordering on Russian-controlled territory.
Russian soldiers detained Guram Gigineishvili in the village Bershueti while he was working in
TBILISI, DFWatch–Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili has picked his own replacement, as he prepares for the race to be Georgia’s next president.
The Georgian Dream coalition chose Margvelashvili as its candidate in the upcoming election, and although Georgian